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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 28m

Blame Waiheke again.

Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 29m

As Richard will confirm, one of the C&R candidates at the Pt Chev forum was mocking when I asked a submitted question about safety and speed on the bird streets. I'd have gone Hulk if I hadn't been the moderator.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 57m

I know, but they could have been even poorer.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 59m

Okay, that is weird.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1h

It can be quite trying.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1h

Also, more than 68,500 votes were cast on Saturday morning, bringing Auckland’s voter turnout to 28.8%. Classic Auckland. Like we all expect to stroll into Eden Park 5 minutes before kick-off.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1h

"Do you have any relevant skills or experience?"

"No, but I'm demonstrably hideous."

"You're hired!"

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 1h

Ooh. City Vision's Michelle Thorp now elected to the Albert-Eden Local Board on preliminary results, meaning a City Vision majority here *and* Waitemata. And Mark Graham could come through on the special votes. Not a good campaign by C&R at all. Maybe raging about "speed bumps" wasn't a good idea.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 2h

Deeply ironic that a former music video director who got a plum fake job at Meta by being a deranged anti-DEI crusader is really the beneficiary of MAGA-DEI, an employment scheme for people who lack relevant skills, experience or temperament. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3h

Nice!

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 3h

It'll be working tomorrow. Something to do with it currently running on a read-only database until the last stage of the migration is done.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, thanks for the heads-up.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 5h

I felt sad too! It just happened at a time when people were away and they were prepping a big launch, so took a little time to sort. They were very apologetic when we talked about it at the party last week, given that they've done all the archiving and hosting for free.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 5h

"Hudson told Stuff his client wanted to be clear that he was not part of any protest activity outside Peters’ house." And he's being charged with burglary. So, er, not a deranged left-wing protester after all? www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Stuff

www.stuff.co.nz

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11h

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 5h

I was struck by how much I missed the site recently when I was writing the MoDA history I was working on – there's a lot of knowledge stored on that website! Feel free to have a visit and a poke around in the search now we're back :-)

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 5h

You probably didn't notice that the archived Public Address has been down for several weeks – something was sucking up the CPU on the hosting server. But it's back, thanks to the kind folk at CactusLab – who, by the way, also had a great 25th birthday party last week. publicaddress.net

Public Address

publicaddress.net

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, I have thoughts about this. I think it engages me with the rest of the community in way that's hard to achieve inside a car.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 9h

I read it. It's not at all a good piece of writing. It ignores the most salient, practical criticism of Weiss – she has no real news experience – and just wallows around in the usual puddle of grievance.

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James Renwick @cubaraglanguy.bsky.social · 11h

An excellent article from Marc Daalder, if you want all the shifty details.
newsroom.co.nz/2025/10/13/f...

Farmers off the hook on climate means rest of us pick up the slack

Comment: The Government's methane announcement is the policy equivalent of a steaming cowpat on cross-partisan climate consensus.

newsroom.co.nz

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 12h

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 10h

"Any EMTR over 100% is seriously distortionary; the government’s new regime introduces an effective marginal tax rate of 1,394,200%." www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener...

PM Christopher Luxon seemingly transmutes political gold into sh*t

PM seemingly fluffs the coalition’s beneficiary-bashing surefire vote winner.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 11h

Exactly this! It's also, by definition, a constant act of balancing you *don't* have to think about, which is therapeutic in a different way. You also get a lot of stimulus from the environment: sights, sounds, smells.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 20h

Walking's fine, but for me lacks active peril, which is important.

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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 23h

I may have died just looking at the picture.

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